Thursday, 26 June 2014

Beyond The TARDIS John Bell - From Who to Hobbit by DJ Forrest

John Bell

From Who to Hobbit

By DJ Forrest

In the year one hundred
trillion, in Silo 16, one of the last refugee places for the human race, a
young orphaned boy, no older than 9 years of age, worked for Lieutenant Atillo. With straggly blond hair and a mucky face,
the child known as Creet reunited family members who had been lost. The human who the Doctor, Martha and Jack
Harkness had ran towards to protect against the hungry nomadic race known as
the Futurekind, was hoping that he’d find his family in Silo 16. Creet reunited mother and son.

Creet touched Martha’s
heart. His words about the skies above
Utopia however would come back to haunt her much later in the story.

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Being an absolute fan of
the Tracy Beaker series, when Toby Coleman arrived at Elmtree House Children’s
Home, otherwise known as The Dumping Ground in 2010, there was something
extremely familiar about him, that I couldn’t quite put my finger on. It was only after watching ‘Utopia’ again did
it click. Toby Coleman was Creet!

John Bell is a Scottish
actor who was born on 20th October 1997. In 2008 he won the Blue Peter competition to
play Creet in 1 episode of Doctor Who. In 2010-2011 he was to be a regular on BAFTA
award winning series ‘Tracy Beaker
Returns’before his character was fostered.

Screenterrier named Bell
as being one of the top 12 British rising stars in July 2011.

From television to the
big screen, John Bell portrayed Helius in Wrath
of the Titans in 2012. He portrayed
Angus in the Sci-fi war film Battleshipand also in that year, he played the character Bain, son of Bard the Bowman in
the film The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug
and again in the new film in post-production The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.

Although Creet’s journey
to Utopia was thwarted by the Master, John Bell’s journey is certainly taking
him to some wonderful locations.